I am finally break my couple month posting silence to bring you the readers(all three of you) a deal that is too good to pass by with out me spreading the word. First I will lay down a little background so things make better sense on why I care in the first place. For a about a year now I have been following the posts on a website called www.fatcyclist.com written by a man named Elden that both made me laugh and brought tears to my eyes. To understand fully what I mean read these posts and you will know a little a bit background about Elden and his family. That post was from 2007 I also had to read a little in the past to get the full affect now onto the heart wrenching section of the site. Elden and his wife Susan through all of the sadness and hard times opened his life to the world he continued to post even though at the worst of times in his life. Along the way he started to raise money for theLiveStrong foundation to fight cancer and raise money he with the help of others all over the country has raised more than $500,000+. Other people started to take notice and more money rolled in. He has done great things in the wake of the sadness of his wife passing away. If you have some time check out www.fatcyclist.com and do a search for Susan and read many of his post that are both touch and inspiring in how strong people can be and what greatness can come in the wake of such sadness.

Now on to the more upbeat section of this post, sorry if the last part was a downer but I had to lay the ground work. How this all start was that Elden posted a joking letter to Johan Bruyneel the head cheese of the new RadioShack cycling team about how he could ride for them and would like a chance. I am pretty sure Elden thought that was as far as it was going to go, until Johan Bruyneel more or less called out Elden on a post that Johan wrote on his own blog. Offer him up a chance to try out for the team when the training begins next week in Arizona. Now not only did he called out Elden but he challenged him to see how good he really has become at raising money, Elden has to raise $10,000 dollars for both Livestrong and The World bicycle relief to be able to join the team in Arizona. Now Elden is not just asking for you to give money. When you donate you will also being entering for you chance to win one of two great bikes, hell maybe even both if you are that damn lucky and enter both contests. One is a 2010 Gary Fisher Superfly geared, top of the line everything. The second bike he is giving away only happens if he raise $25,000 dollars for both of the charities. It is a bike he could actually get from the Team RadioShack signed by the whole team, yes he is giving up a bike he could keep. It is a 2010 Trek Madone 6-series with Sram red components which will be signed by Team Radio Shack, including Lance Armstrong. This is how the contest work, you get your name in the drawing once for every five dollars you give to Livestrong, fifty bucks equals 10 chances to win, simple enough. Livestrong equals Gary Fischer bike, World Bicycle Relief equals Trek, if you want a chance at both you will have to throw five bucks at each contest. He also has some great second and third prizes that you can read about here and also enter to win one or both bikes.

Normally I don’t push constest or donations you all know that but this is too good to pass up, plus I sure would like to see him and get to read about his ride with team Radio Shack.

UPDATED 12/8/09 Elden has met his goal of $25k but now Johan Bruynaal has upped the goal again to $50,000 and a trip to the Tour De France if he meets it. And yes you are enter to win a trip to the TDF no matter which fund you give too. Seriously this is too good not to drop five bucks to especially if you figure out your odds, they are pretty good.